was bewildering
- past progressive of bewilder.
Example Sentences
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Shibley Telhami, a professor of peace and development at the University of Maryland and a fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank, says the threat of a blockade was "bewildering and seems self-defeating."
From Barron's ● Apr. 12, 2026
For Newman, just to be in a meeting with so many icons was bewildering.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024
I can imagine that in the immediate aftermath, figuring out what to say to kids was bewildering, and the pressure to keep things strictly and vaguely patriotic in the classroom was intense.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2021
And it was bewildering to millions of other Americans, including my younger self, newly back home after a two-year Army stretch, most of it in West Germany.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2020
The grass was so many different things at once, it was bewildering.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
